Anthologies

Poetry and Reform:

Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press 1792-1824

Edited by Michael Scrivener

Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1992

CONTENTS

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One:

The Revolutionary Decade and Its Repressive Aftermath, 1792-1809

Newspapers

1. Morning Chronicle, 1792-1796

Sensibility (1792)

Ode On Liberty (1792)

To Liberty (1792)

J.A.

Stanzas to T. Paine (1792)

J. T. R[utt]

The Maid's Enigma (1792)

The Genius of France (1792)

Hymn on the Fast (1793)

George Dyer

Sedition Act (1796)

A Lady

2. Manchester Herald, 1792

On Sugar (1792)

A Citizen of the World

The Reform. By The Right Hon. William Pitt (1792)

To the English Friends of French Freedom (1792)

A Song, Composed for the Anniversary of the French Revolution. . . (1792)

Mr. Scott (of Dromore)

Epigram (1792)

Sam Sly

Song. The Fire of Liberty (1792)

3. Cambridge Intelligencer, 1793-1799 

The Wrongs of Poverty (1793)

J.T.R[utt]

Song. Invocation to Liberty (1793)

Soliloquy (1794)

T.R.

The Wish (1794)

Renege Trin. Coll.

Domestic Felicity (1795)

C. V. L.

Sonnet (1799)

Sonnet (1799)

London Political Journals

1. The Patriot, 1793

The Present War (1793)

Tell

2. Pig's Meat, 1793-1795

[Jubilee Hymn] from Spence's Rights of Man . . . (1793)

[Thomas Spence]

Burke's Address to the "Swinish Multitude!" (1793)

[Thomas Spence]

Alteration (1794)

[Thomas Spence]

Examples of Safe Printing (1794)

[Thomas Spence]

Tribute to Liberty (1794)

W. D. Grant

Edmund Burke's Address to the Swinish Multitude (1794)

[Thomas Spence]

The Rights of Man for Me . . . (1794)

[Thomas Spence]

The Downfall of Feudal Tyranny . . . (1795)

[Thomas Spence]

3. Politics for the People, 1793-1794

What Makes a Libel? A Fable (1793)

Two Ways. . . (1793-1794)

No Work

1694 (1794)

Logs, Storks, and Asses (1794)

The Goitre. A Fable (1794)

Hymn to Liberty (1794)

Independence (1794)

Effects of War (1794)

Philanthropos

A Parallel Between Riches and Poverty. From the Greek of Rhianus (1794)

A Tale (1794)

Tommy Pindar

An Hymn for the Fast Day, to Be Sung by the Friends of Mankind (1794)

On Abuses (1794)

4. The Philanthropist, 1795-1796

Address to Poverty (1795)

Sonnet (1795)

Sylvanus Amicus

Cato's Solilquy Parodied (1795)

M. [W.] H. Green

A New Song (1795)

Song (1795)

T. Best

Political Conundrums (1795)

W. H. Green

The Carmagnole (1795)

An Ode to Kentucky (1795)

An Emigrant

The Attributes of Liberty (1795)

W. H. Green

For the Tenth of August, 1795 (1795)

The Republican Crop. A New Song (1796)

W. H. Green

Every Inch a Patriot, A New Song (1796)

R. M.

Ode to Freedom (1796)

5. The Tribune, 1795

Ode on the Destruction of the Bastille (1795)

John Thelwall

News from Toulon . . . (1795)

John Thelwall

A Sheepsheering Song (1795

John Thelwall

A Patriot's Feeling; Or the Call of Duty. . . (1795)

[John Thelwall?]

Lines Written by a Female Citizen! (1795)

F. A. C.

Provincial Political Journals

1. The Cabinet, 1795 (Norwich)

Sonnet to Winter (1795)

N. [Amelia Alderson]

2. The Oeconomist, 1798 (Newcastle)

The Cottage. A Competence and Not Riches the Source of Happiness (1798)

[Z.]

The Harvest Moon (1798)

Monthlies

1. Moral and Political Magazine, 1796-1797

Song (1796)

George Dyer

Sonnet: The Lion (1796)

Joshua

Invocation to the Genius of Britain (1796)

A Female Citizen F. A. C.

Sonnet (1797)

Fable. The Ass and the Driver (1797)

2. Monthly Magazine, 1796-1809

Address to Poverty (1796)

L.

Ballad (1796)

Glee (Glorious Apollo) (1796)

J[ohn]. T[helwall].

Stanzas, To the Memory of Robert Burns (1797)

To Stella, On Her Birth-Day . . . (1797)

John Thelwall

Effusion on the Approaching Fast-Day (1797)

T. S. S.

Ode to Terror (1797)

S. W.

Conscience the Worst of Tortures (1798)

Miss [Fanny] Holcroft

On Miss Linwood's Admirable Pictures in Needle-Work (1798)

L[ucy]. A[ikin].

Owen Parfet (1799)

Female Education at Two Periods (1799)

Horace, Book I. Epist. 18 Verse 96. to the End (1800)

Gilbert Wakefield

To Gilbert Wakefield, A.B. on His Liberation from Prison (1801)

J[ohn]. Aikin

To John Aikin, M.D. (1801)

Gilbert Wakefield

To the Memory of the Rev. G. Wakefield (1801)

L[ucy]. A[ikin].

The Condemned Sailor (1801)

Fanny Holcroft

Part of an Inscription Designed for a Garden (1801)

J[ohn]. T. R[utt].

A Picture and a Prophecy (1803)

A.R.

[Burdett!] (1809)

Anthocles

3. Athenaeum, 1808

Necessity (1808)

4. Flower's Political Review, 1807-1808

Monday's News, at Bath . . . (1807)

T. P.

To the Memory of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox (1807)

S. W.

Holy Anticipation; For a Future Thanksgiving Day (1808)

Part Two: The Rebirth of Radicalism, 1815-1824

1. The Theological Inquirer, 1815

Ode to Religion (1815)

F. [R. C. Fair]

Scripture Soliloqu[i]es. Our Blessed Saviour on Mount Calvary (1815)

F. [R. C. Fair]

On Sectarian Persecution (1815)

S.

The Ruined City (1815)

F. [R. C. Fair]

2. The People, 1817

Spontaneous Verse (1817)

P. F. P__

An Englishman's Domestic View of His Political Situation . . . (1817)

R. W[edderburn].

3. The Forlorn Hope/Axe Laid to Root, 1817

The Desponding Negro (1817)

R. W[edderburn].

The Negro Boy Sold for a Watch (1817)

R. W[edderburn].

The African[']s Complaint on Board a Slave Ship! (1817)

R. W[edderburn].

[Britons!] (1817)

[R. Wedderburn]

4. Sherwin's Political Register, 1817-1818

On the New and Unconstitutional Legislative Acts. . . (1817)

H. W.

On Seeing in a List of New Music The Waterloo Waltz (1817)

R. S[horter].

Monopoly (1817)

Alfred

Appeal to Englishmen (1817)

S. R.

The Topic (1817)

A. D[avenport] .

Ode on the Anniversary of T. Paine's Birth-Day . . . (1818)

Clio Rickman

To Englishmen (1818)

M.

England, at the Commencement of the Reign of George III. 1760 (1818)

Sonnet. Written with a Pencil . . . (1818)

Clio Rickman

Distress of the Poor; A New Song (1818)

G. Taylor

A Hint to Congress (1818)

A. D[avenport].

5. The Mirror of Truth, 1817

The Devil's Thoughts (1817)

Professor Porson [S. T. Coleridge]

6. The Theological and Political Comet; or, Free-Thinking Englishman, 1819

[Let Preachers Waste Their Breath . . . ] (1819)

[R. Shorter?]

[When Babylon's Notorious Wh--re . . . ] (1819)

[R. Shorter?]

The Bloody Field of Peterloo! A New Song (1819)

R[obert] S[horter].

A Psalm, to the Praise and Honor of Liberty (1819)

[R. Shorter?]

The Wanton Wife of Bath (1819)

[R. Shorter?]

[Blush, Christian . . .] (1819)

["country correspondent"]

Saint Ethelstone's Day (1819)

A. D[avenport].

A New Song (1819)

7. The White Hat, 1819

Sonnet (1819)

It Is Lovely to Die for Our Country (1819)

T. A. T.

8. The Medusa, 1819

Majesty in the Shades (1819)

[T. Davison?]

The Wrongs of Man. Or, Things As They Are (1819)

Spencean Philanthropist

The Rights of Man, Or, Things As They Were Intended to Be by Divine Providence (1819)

Spencean Philanthropist

Nature's First, Last, and Only Will! Or a Hint to Mr. Bull (1819)

E. J. B[landford].

A Real Dream; Or, Another Hint for Mr. Bull! (1819)

E. J. B[landford].

More Hints for Mr. Bull; With the Last Hint, Which at Last Bull Must Take! (1819)

E. J. B[landford].

Invocation to Britain (1819)

C. P.

An Ode, to Major Cartwright (1819)

A. D[avenport].

Man in Prospective, Or Things As They Are to Be! (1819)

A Terrible Omen to Guilty Tyrants; Or the Spirit of Liberty! (1819)

E. J. B[landford].

A Lord's Advice, And A Tradesman's Reply (1819)

S. D.

On a Bloody Massacre (1819)

An Address to "The Rabble" (1819)

Paddy Bull's Epistle to His Brother John (1819)

9. The Black Dwarf, 1817-1824

The Plot. A Letter to My Brother Robert in the Country (1817)

Dick (of Stepney)

Answer to the Threats of Corruption (1817)

T[homas]. J. W[ooler].

A Tear (1818)

C. M. T.

The Three Bulls and the Jackdaw. A Fable (1818)

Philo Taurus

Insolence (1818)

F. [R. C. Fair?]

Impromptu Reply to Impertinence (1818)

CLIO

Ode to Major Cartwright (1818)

R. [C.] Fair

To Belinda (1818)

Florio

Ode to the Ladies on Their Alledged [sic] Rights (1818)

Roderick Random

Rights of Women. Answer to Florio (1818)

Napolean in Exile (1818)

F. [R. C. Fair?]

To Britons (1819)

Caledonius

Stanzas Occasioned by the Manchester Massacre! (1819)

Hibernicus

The Peterloo Man (1819)

State Contrivances! (1820)

W. F. L.

Sonnet to Reason (1820)

William Sturch

The Queen's Triumph (1820)

J. W. Dalby

Jeremy Bentham (1821)

B.

The Banished Printer to his Trade (1821)

J. W. B.

Tribute to the Memory of an Injured Queen (1821)

F. G.

Ode to a Plotting Parson . . . (1821)

S. Bamford

The Late Honourable Conduct of Radicals Justified (1822)

Radix

A New Loyal Song, Meant to Please Mr. Murray (1824)

An Ode. . . (1824)

G. Dyer

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

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